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GEORGE `cHannanLIN, or .oLnAN, YNew YORK.

'Letters Patent No. 107,335, dated September 13, 1870.

IMPRovEMEN'r ,m DRAFT-HARNESS.

The Schedule referred to in theevLetters Patent and makingl part of the same v To all whom it may concern .t I

Be it known that I, GEORGE GHAMBEnLm, of Qlean, in the county of Gattaraugus andy State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Im` provenients in Haine-Harness for Working Horses. without Iugs or Whiletrees for Ilowing,'Harrowing, and otherfFarmPm-poses; andthe following is a full, clear, andexact description of the same, ref-v erence being'had to the accompanying drawing making a part 'ot' this specification, in *which--l-v Figure l represents the frames of twoha'me-icollars, as constructed 'and connected by the neck-yoke.v

`Figure 2 shows an edge view ot' the frame of'a llame, with the inode of attaching the neck-yoke.

Figure 3 represents a pail` of horses fully harnessed and equipped for plowing or yother cultivating.

The object of my invention is to dispense witlrall of the cumbersome, unnecessary gear, trappings, and

`fixtures which take time to put on and take olf, and

and `which sweat, chafe, and gall the animals while at work inthe eld; and l v lIt consists intheconstrnction and arrangement of the devices for connecting the haines to the vneckyoke, and the bitching of vthe plow or other agricultural implement to th'ene-ek-yoke, so that the draft is brought to bear directly on the haine-collars in as natural a' manner as it can be bythe use ot' tug-strap and whitietrees.

To enable others to make and use my improvement,

I will describe it .more fully, referring to the drawing andthe letters marked thereon.

. '.lo the wood frames A A I secure plates of metal (t c, to which are connected braces, b b, projectingjout in front a suitable ort-he requreddistance, to be 'in thel proper position to attach the neck-yokeB.l

At the apex of the braces b b there are joints C C,

plement constructed with along tongue or pole,`} 3, it is hitched directly to the neck-yoke B, asl seenin tig.

3.3 Implements like the plow,jhaving a-sliort beam, and'culti'vators, lharrows, and other implements may require a chain to hitch them, in the same manner as they are hitched when they are drawnby oxen,

The llame-frames A A maybe padded on the por- I tion that'bears on the shoulders. and breasts of the horses.

lhe plates a a are'provided withv slotst e', so that they may be moved up or down on the vframe A A, to bring the beariugln the easiestplace for draft on the horses.v

Thus it will .be seen that horse-teams Vcan beh'itched np or put out as quick as oxen, andare as dise-neumbered while at work. What I claim as my invention isilhe combined collar and` haines, provided with plates a a, braces b b, joints C O, andbars D D, when hinged to the braces b b and connected to the yoke B by the swivel-joints l d,all arranged as herein shown and described. l y

1n testimony whereof I hereunto subscribev my name in the presence of- GEORGE GHAMBERLIN. Witnesses: ,f A

W, H. RAMsnY, 'H. W.'OHAMBERLIN. 

